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William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes

Women are jealous of cigars... they regard them as a strong rival Picture Quote #1

Frequent the company of your betters Picture Quote #1

Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions Picture Quote #1

Diffidence is a sort of false modesty Picture Quote #1

Humor is the mistress of tears Picture Quote #1

Humor is wit and love Picture Quote #1

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Life without laughing is a dreary blank Picture Quote #1

It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends Picture Quote #1

Almost all women have hearts full of pity Picture Quote #1

Life is the soul’s nursery Picture Quote #1

Taste is something quite different from fashion, superior to fashion Picture Quote #1

Malice is of the boomerang character, and is apt to turn upon the projector Picture Quote #1

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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills Picture Quote #1

In effective womanly beauty form is more than face, and manner more than either Picture Quote #1

A marriage or a refusal or a proposal thrills through a whole household of women, and sets their hysterical sympathies at work Picture Quote #1

The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. I say he is a poor spirited coward Picture Quote #1

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write Picture Quote #1

Good humour may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society Picture Quote #1

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This I set down as a positive truth. A woman with fair opportunities, and without a positive hump, may marry whom she likes Picture Quote #1

If a man’s character is to be abused, say what you will, there’s nobody like a relation to do the business Picture Quote #1

Everybody in Vanity Fair must have remarked how well those live who are comfortably and thoroughly in debt; how they deny themselves nothing; how jolly and easy they are in their minds Picture Quote #1

Although I enter not, yet round about the spot ofttimes I hover; and near the sacred gate with longing eyes I wait, expectant of her Picture Quote #1

As the gambler said of his dice, to love and win is the best thing, to love and lose is the next best Picture Quote #1

Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb Picture Quote #1

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[Of Jonathan Swift: ] An immense genius: an awful downfall and ruin. So great a man he seems to me, that thinking of him is like thinking of an empire falling Picture Quote #1

Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them - almost all women; a vast number of clever, hardheaded men Picture Quote #1

The two most engaging powers of a good author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new Picture Quote #1

If a man character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do the business Picture Quote #1

Let us be very gentle with our neighbors’ failings, and forgive our friends their debts as we hope ourselves to be forgiven Picture Quote #1

For my part, I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses, the very easiest to be deadened when wakened, and in some never wakened at all Picture Quote #1

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Women are jealous of cigars... they regard them as a strong rival (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes) Frequent the company of your betters (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes) Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes) Diffidence is a sort of false modesty (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes) Humor is the mistress of tears (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes) Humor is wit and love (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes) Life without laughing is a dreary blank (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes) It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes) Almost all women have hearts full of pity (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes) Life is the soul’s nursery (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes) Taste is something quite different from fashion, superior to fashion (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes) Malice is of the boomerang character, and is apt to turn upon the projector (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes) It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes) In effective womanly beauty form is more than face, and manner more than either (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes) A marriage or a refusal or a proposal thrills through a whole household of women, and sets their hysterical sympathies at work (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes) The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. I say he is a poor spirited coward (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes) There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes) Good humour may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes) This I set down as a positive truth. A woman with fair opportunities, and without a positive hump, may marry whom she likes (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes) If a man’s character is to be abused, say what you will, there’s nobody like a relation to do the business (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes) Everybody in Vanity Fair must have remarked how well those live who are comfortably and thoroughly in debt; how they deny themselves nothing; how jolly and easy they are in their minds (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes) Although I enter not, yet round about the spot ofttimes I hover; and near the sacred gate with longing eyes I wait, expectant of her (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes) As the gambler said of his dice, to love and win is the best thing, to love and lose is the next best (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes) Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes) [Of Jonathan Swift: ] An immense genius: an awful downfall and ruin. So great a man he seems to me, that thinking of him is like thinking of an empire falling (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes) Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them - almost all women; a vast number of clever, hardheaded men (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes) The two most engaging powers of a good author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes) If a man character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do the business (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes) Let us be very gentle with our neighbors’ failings, and forgive our friends their debts as we hope ourselves to be forgiven (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes) For my part, I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses, the very easiest to be deadened when wakened, and in some never wakened at all (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes)

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